Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/12/31
By: Liu Shih-i and Ko Lin

Taipei, Dec. 31 (CNA) A policeman who shot and killed a Vietnamese migrant worker in Hsinchu County two

years ago was given a three-year suspended sentence in a ruling by the Taiwan High Court on Tuesday.

Chen Chung-wen (陳崇文) was sentenced to six months in prison, with a three-year suspension, on condition that he does not commit any offenses during the period of suspension.

The sentence was slightly reduced from the Hsinchu District Court ruling in July, which sentenced him to eight months in prison, with a three-year suspension.

The 24-year-old police officer was convicted of negligent manslaughter after he was accused of firing nine shots at an apparently defenseless Vietnamese migrant worker named Nguyen Quoc Phi on Aug. 31, 2017.    [FULL  STORY]